I’m trying out something new with AOL Instant Messenger. I’m talking almost exclusively in a chatroom, instead of one on one IMing sessions. I have quite a few people on my list (but I occasionally clean it out to keep it from going over 100) and many of these people I’ve met from different places. Many of these people don’t know each other. Figuring out who the others are is half the fun, as I found out last night.

I’m doing this because I haven’t been too talkative lately — and by lately I mean a whole bunch of months — and this seems to be a better way to get conversation started. Having more people builds to the conversation. It gives me more ideas, and I don’t have to come up with ideas to start conversation. Multiple people also add to the randomness quotient of conversation. Jumping from topic to topic is quicker, and the whole conversation is more fast-paced. Usually when I talk, there are huge gaps.

The multiple people thing making people more talkative can also be seen when speaking in real life. It’s synergetic; separately, they don’t have as much to say, but together, they build off each other.

So, I’m going to continue this and see how it goes. My screen name is “schizo killer” and “get out of my chatroom” is the name of the chatroom.